Alain Robert Quotes

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. It should go without saying that people who are not charged with a crime also are presumed innocent.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

In my country a person is innocent until appointed by the President. That would be funnier of I were kidding.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.

Due process does not require that every conceivable step be taken, at whatever cost, to eliminate the possibility of convicting an innocent person. To conclude otherwise would all but paralyze our system for enforcement of the criminal law.

I believe in the jury system.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in the the procedures are completed.

I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.